Re: [Scid-users] ChessDB with Phalanx

[Dr. D. K. <dav...@on...>]

pgeorges wrote:
> Hi,
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> David Kirkby a =E9crit :
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>>I'm not sending this from home, but are using my PDA, on which I don't =
have access to my past emails stored on my home computer. Also, please ex=
cuse errors here - typing a long email on a PDA is not fun and is error p=
rone.
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>>Somebody (sorry forgot who) posted some mods to ChessDB which allow som=
eone to play against Phalanx while using Crafty as a coach. I've tried th=
is but were unable to get it working.=20
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>>I have multiple chess engines defined, including=20
>>1) Current version of Crafty.
>>2) Some older versions of Crafty compiled with support for multiple CPU=
s (recent versions will not compile with SMP support on my quad CPU Sun U=
ltraSPARC computer).
>>3) Toga, which uses Polyglot as a UCI to Winboard interface. (Perhaps o=
ne day we could integrate support for UCI engines, to avoid the need for =
compiling Polygot too. A nice tickbox for UCI or winboard would be nice.)=
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>>4) Phalanx which I just built on my Sun after some hacking of the Phala=
nx source to get it to compile.
>>5) chessdblet.
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>>There's probably a dozen different engines configured. (I wish ChessDB =
would allow 4 or 5 to be used at once, rather than just engines #1 and #2=
. Its nice to get views from several engies and if you have multiple CPUs=
 it does not impact performance)
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>>Although I set the playing engine to be Phalanx in your new code, the m=
essages indicate that Toga is being used, not Phalanx as configured. It i=
s then clear some commands sent to the engine (Toga) cause error messages=
 - for example a command to set a position does not work. The result is I=
 can't use it as intended.=20
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> The Phalanx engine *must be* the one embedded in the chessDB sources (i=
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> engines dir). As I already mentionned, I had to add  the setboard=20
> feature to Phalanx, so Phalanx sources are a bit different.
> I configured other engines in chessDB, and could select appropriate one=
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> to play a tactical game. For now I only tested Phalanx (modified) with=20
> Crafty (20.14) as coach. Can you try this set up ?
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I still can't get it top work. Here is the log file made by ChessDB.=20
Note that the reason it compplains about the crafty books is that these=20
are for x86, but the CPU is SPARC.

The log is below. Note there seems to be Phalanx messages from both=20
Phalanx and Crafty. Are your mods useing the oringal log files.


1 Engine: Phalanx XXII
2 Engine: telluser Phalanx: Cannot open both [sbook.phalanx] and=20
[pbook.phalanx]2 Engine: tellics set 1 Phalanx XXII, 820 kB hashtable,=20
0/0 kB P/S opening book


So Phalanx seems to be both engines 1 and 2, but I have the right hand=20
pane of your code to be Crafty and not Phalanx.

Here's more of the log.


1 Engine: Phalanx XXII
1 NOTE  : First line from engine seen; sending it initial commands now.
1 Scid  : xboard
1 Scid  : protover 2
1 Scid  : ponder off
1 Scid  : post
1 Engine: telluser Phalanx: Cannot open both [sbook.phalanx] and=20
[pbook.phalanx]2 Engine: Phalanx XXII
2 NOTE  : First line from engine seen; sending it initial commands now.
2 Scid  : xboard
2 Scid  : protover 2
2 Scid  : ponder off
2 Scid  : post
1 Engine: tellics set 1 Phalanx XXII, easy level 100
1 Engine:
1 Engine: [ white, 1 ]
1 Engine: xboard mode on
1 Engine: Illegal move: protover 2
1 Engine: Illegal move: ponder off
1 Engine: post on
2 Engine: learning file ./learn.phalanx, 262144 bytes
2 Engine: telluser Phalanx: Cannot open both [sbook.phalanx] and=20
[pbook.phalanx]2 Engine: tellics set 1 Phalanx XXII, 820 kB hashtable,=20
0/0 kB P/S opening book
2 Engine: [ white, 1 ]
2 Engine: xboard mode on
2 Engine: Illegal move: protover 2
2 Engine: Illegal move: ponder off
2 Engine: post on
1 Scid  : exit
1 Scid  : quit
2 Scid  : exit
2 Scid  : quit
1 Scid  : setboard rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b KQkq=20
- 0 1
1 Scid  : go
1 Engine: Phalanx XXII
1 NOTE  : First line from engine seen; sending it initial commands now.
1 Scid  : xboard
1 Scid  : protover 2
1 Scid  : ponder off
1 Scid  : post
1 Engine: telluser Phalanx: Cannot open both [sbook.phalanx] and=20
[pbook.phalanx]1 Engine: tellics set 1 Phalanx XXII, easy level 100
1 Engine:
1 Engine: [ white, 1 ]
1 Engine: xboard mode on
1 Engine: Illegal move: protover 2
1 Engine: Illegal move: ponder off
1 Engine: post on
2 NOTE  : Quiet engine (still no output); sending it initial commands.
2 Scid  : xboard
2 Scid  : protover 2
2 Scid  : post
2 Scid  : ponder off
2 Scid  : force
2 Engine:
2 Engine: ERROR!  book.bin not made by version 17.0 or later
2 Engine: hash table memory =3D  384M bytes.
1 Scid  : exit
1 Scid  : quit
2 Scid  : exit
2 Scid  : quit
1 Scid  : setboard rnbqkbnr/ppp1pppp/8/3p4/4PP2/8/PPPP2PP/RNBQKBNR b=20
KQkq - 0 2
1 Scid  : go



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Dr. David Kirkby